Quote by Albert Shanker

We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.

We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percen

Summary

This quote metaphorically suggests that the speaker is producing a large quantity of inferior or faulty products, likening the products to lemons. The phrase "80-85 percent lemons" indicates that the majority of what they are producing is of low quality, suggesting a lack of success or efficiency in their operation. This quote conveys a sense of disappointment or frustration with the speaker's current output or situation.

Topics

Company Companions

By Albert Shanker

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that th

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Heroes/heroism

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in ord

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

Dylan McDermott

Sad

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a ho

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

Jacqueline Carey

Dream Hollow

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what th

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Prophecy

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not tra

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region bec

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

Natan Sharansky

Freedom

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic a

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

Hope Religion Inspirational Justice Religious Christian Discipleship

You have citizens who don't understand how government works

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Government

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

Mind Thoughts

In this journey you must become a lover of your enemies, so

In this journey you must become a lover of your enemies, so that the purity of your love may attract the hearts.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was d

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Diplomacy

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the ind

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Lionel Trilling

Art